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Thursday, October 25, 1984
Daily Nebraskan
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'Big screen ' deserves better,
By Chris Burbach
Dally Nebnsktn Senior Editor
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Springfield's latest blends sci-fi, fantasy
Video Reviews by ,
Scott Harr&!i
Daily Nefcreslcan Sta? Reporter
The Fixx, "Are We Ourselves":
Could this possibly be the same
band that made such highly aes
thetic videos as "Saved by Zero"?
One would never know it after
viewing this lackluster concept
video that shows band members
running around a prairie playing
their instruments. Youll need a
ton of No-Doz to stay awake
watching this yawner.
Rick Springfield, "Bop 'til Yosi
Drop":
You know science fiction has
made it when it starts influencing
videos. Rick sports dreadlocks in
this elaborate piece that features
several shots of phantasmagoric
villages as well as freaky little
creatures. It's ridiculous, imagin
ative, and will surely excite the
glands of Rick's female fans.
Elton John, "Who Wesr These
Shoes":
Only dapper, dazzling Elton
could give us a video this enter
taining. It's filled with giant hearts,
mazes, celestial lighting and lots
of leggy girls struttin their stuff,
making this piece a sizzler.
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descend, then rise again bearing
a band in garish garb and
makeup. Paul McCartney, with a
steely edge to his voice begins
to sing "Some people wanna nil
the world with silly love songs "
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It is only rational that the pro
ducers of a silly film chose the
most inane band around to sing
the theme song. In the video, the
three British songstresses don
high-fashion garb and splash
paint around, trying to make
viewers think it's avant garde.
This viewer thinks it's idiotic.
Scandal, "Hands Tied":
This band, now reformed after
an ephemeral break-up, has ob
viously learned that austerity is
the best way to present serious
music. Lead vocalist Patty Smythe,
minus her "Warrior" face paint,
wears a slinky black gown and
sings in an all-white room in this
video. It's a welcome change from
their last video, which brought
new meaning to the word pretentious.
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That scene sets the tone for
the balance of McCartney's new
movie, "Give My Regards to
Broad Street." The film is one
hour and 45 minutes of music
videos interspersed with laugh
able acting. The pat plot is rife
with the plastic insincerity and
transparency of MTV.
The film is the tale of a rock
'n roll singer (McCartney) who
dreams during a traffic jam that
the master tapes to his new
album have, disappeared before
the album's scheduled release.
McCartney bustles through his
busy day while his producer and
entourage fret over the. missing
goods. .
During the day, McCartney
meets with record company
executives, does a BBC inter
view, records, rehearses and
tapes videos. The events are
connected only because they are
everyday activities for a rock 'n'
roll star. The story has no
cause-and-effect links.
. The plot is designed so Paul
can plop in song-and-dance
numbers with no obstructions.
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McCartney's ex-con pal,
Harry, fosuspected of pilfering
the tapes. Harry and , in fact, all
potential sources of action stay
out of the way, just popping up
now and then to remind us that
we're watching a movie. The dia
logue sounds like a first reading
of a script as the lifeless
McCartney, Ringo Starr and
Barbara Bach recite their lines
like automatons, and Tracey
Ullman cries on cue.
In the one sincere scene in
the movie, McCartney is being
McCartney standing by a sub
way strumming and crooning
with a guitar case open at his
feet.
McCartney sings and plays
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well throughout the film. He is
accompanied on Wings tunes,
"Band on the Run" and "BaU
room Dancing," and new arran
gements of "Good Day Sunshine"
and "Yesterday" by a talented
cast including Dave Edmunds,
Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones,
Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmoure and
several other notable musicians.
Chances are we'll see most of
the music on television soon,
perhaps with somo of the film's
folderol but we expect tripe
from the tube. The big screen,
especially at $3.50 plus a whack,
ought to be reserved for better.
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